Historical Events In 1962

Nov 01 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars

Nov 29 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year

Nov 19 Jodie Foster was born

Nov 01 First ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched

Nov 20 President John F. Kennedy lifts the Blockade of Cuba.

Nov 26 The first recording session under the name "Beatles"

Nov 02 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled

Nov 06 Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA)

Sep 10 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis

Sep 11 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You"

Sep 23 ABC's first color TV series-The Jetsons

Sep 25 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia

Sep 04 Beatles record "How Do You Do It"

Sep 16 Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC

Sep 18 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN

Sep 27 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles

Sep 25 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in first round for heavyweight title

Sep 29 Launch of Alouette 1, first Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)

Sep 01 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion

Sep 25 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup

Sep 26 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)

Sep 15 Australia's first entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)

Sep 20 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its first black

Sep 26 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS

Sep 01 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran

Sep 30 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi

Sep 24 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss

Jun 30 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0

Jun 27 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m

Jun 29 First flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner

Jun 06 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for the first time Beatles record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

Jun 14 Thirty people arrested in plot to kill the French leader De Gaulle

Jun 01 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit

Jun 17 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago

Jun 30 Rwanda &Burundi become independent

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